On: MiniDisc Hacking

[LeoPanthera]

What! I grew up in the UK and it was everywhere. For years you couldn't get on a bus or a train without seeing someone listening to MiniDisc. The little inline remotes were very obvious.

They stuck around for a long time, only finally being killed by the iPod.

[idleproc → LeoPanthera]

Indeed.

I even had a MiniDisc car stereo. So much better than CDs, you could just let them rattle around in the glove box and they didn't get scratched.

[cogman10 → LeoPanthera]

And it wasn't the first iPod that ended up killing it. Circa 2004->2006 minidiscs were still super common.